Skip The Use - Love & Anxiety Tour

SKIP THE USE IS BACK! Three years after the emotional whirlwind of Human Disorder, the Lille quartet returns to set our eardrums trembling and raise consciousness with "WE ARE GOOD" / "DISTORTER", the first double release from a forthcoming sixth album. In the colourful wake of their fifth offspring, Mat Bastard (vocals), Yan Stefani (guitar), Enzo Gabert (drums) and Nelson Martins (bass) have shaped their new record like a puzzle, during a refreshing creative interlude. Throughout this pause bathed in freedom, the four accomplices took on the challenge of composing individually in service of the collective, until they gave birth to a boundless sonic patchwork, sending labels flying while never forgetting to bring people together, fist raised high.

The first warning shot of this sixth chapter, the double A-side single "WE ARE GOOD" / "DISTORTER", sees the band join forces with the brilliant American sound engineer Adam Hawkins, a Grammy Award winner for his work on Switchfoot's album Hello Hurricane and a behind-the-scenes collaborator for some of the biggest giants of pop (Britney Spears, L.P., Demi Lovato...), rap (50 Cent, Eminem, The Roots...) and alternative rock (Blink-182, Muse, Twenty One Pilots, Turnstile, Yungblud...). On the other side, "DISTORTER", a defiant and libertarian outlet with the air of an electro-punk uppercut: "It's a violent, uncompromising observation: we are the authors of our own lives. The greatest con of our time has been persuading us that we are incapable of taking charge of our own destiny", say its creators. Behind its evocative name, suggesting an effects pedal that would distort not the guitars but our very lives, the track denounces the established order in order all the better to break its chains: "They sell us their lies, they poison our veins / Feed us their fear, but we're breaking the chains", sung by a Mat Bastard rarely so defiant, just before the chorus emerges. The latter, cathartic and rebellious,